Confidence in Action: The Workforce Confidence Index

The Workforce Confidence Index report provides a detailed, multi-wave view of U.S. workforce sentiment across skilled industry and professional sectors, tracking job security, financial confidence, leadership trust, and institutional trust among thousands of verified B2B professionals; built on rigorously profiled respondents from key industrial, construction, manufacturing, engineering, technology, energy, healthcare, and professional services fields, the study delivers consistent, longitudinal insight into how confidence and trust evolve over time, ensuring decision-makers can rely on stable, comparable benchmarks wave after wave.

Why Download this Index Report?

  • The Workforce Confidence Index is a recurring, multi-wave research study conducted by RONIN International and myCLEARopinion Insights Hub that tracks U.S. workforce sentiment over time, measuring changes in job security, personal financial confidence, leadership trust, institutional trust, and economic outlook across key industries.

  • • Track workforce confidence over time: The Workforce Confidence Index is a multi-wave study that consistently measures changes in job security, financial confidence, leadership trust, and institutional trust, allowing readers to see what is shifting versus what remains structurally entrenched.

  • • Separate short-term sentiment from long-term signals: By running the same measures across multiple waves, the Index distinguishes temporary reactions to events from durable trends in workforce confidence and skepticism.

  • • Benchmark your organization and industry: Results provide clear reference points for how confidence in leadership, government, media, and regulation compares across sectors and over time.

  • • Understand where trust actually resides: The study reveals a stable hierarchy of trust—showing which institutions workers rely on most and which continue to face skepticism—helping leaders prioritize credible channels and messengers.

  • • Inform leadership, communication, and policy decisions: Insights highlight where transparency, direct engagement, and organizational credibility matter most as macro-level trust remains weak.

Who Should Read this Index Report?

  • If you are looking to understand how workforce confidence is evolving across key U.S. industries, this report provides longitudinal insights into job security, financial confidence, leadership trust, and institutional trust—showing where sentiment is strengthening, holding steady, or eroding over time to support informed research, strategy, and decision-making.

  • • Market Research Managers

  • • Investment Analysts and Portfolio Managers

  • • Consulting Firm Partners and Managers

  • • Data Analysts

  • • Insights Managers

  • • Business Development Managers

  • • Product Development Managers

  • • Brand Managers

  • • Marketing Managers

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